I've had a long ride setting up SAMBA and Winbind, essentially what
I'm trying to do at the moment is transfer the file server from the Win2k server to a Linux machine to east the strain and spread the network traffic out over different switches.

I am using SAMBA 2.2.5 and Debian 3.0.

I have SAMBA working fine, I can browse the Public and Temp shares and write to them from a Win2k machine.

I have Winbind working as far as I can tell, wbinfo -t gives an ok, wbinfo -u returns users and same for -g.

I have done getent passwd and getent group and all the users show up ok.

When I try and logout and log back into Xwindows with a Domain rather than local user (they are all listed correctly in kdm DOMAIN+User), the login always fails even when I know the password is correct.

I can browse my home directory, but only if I have a local user on the linux machine that matches my network logon if I try from another logon without the equivalent linux entry it doesn't work.

The domain authentication doesn't seem to working.

(security = domain is set).

How do I create and get home directories working and how do I set up shares with group properties, e.g. only Managers are allowed access etc.

Config files and more available on request.

Do I need to do all the PAM authentication stuff? I've tried but my source directory doesn't contain a pam_winbind.so file?

'scuse me for asking but I thought that the domain security was only for users connectiong to the samba box from another box.

I didn't think that it had reached the stage of e.g allowing local user logon on the linux box authenticating in the domain. Only users accessing the shares etc could be authenticated against the domain.

I could be completely wrong and behind the times tho... if so could you point me to docs that show where you can replace local nix users with domain security? Would be interesting.

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